considering how easily a lot of people thought it would be to replace fernando mendoza with josh hoover i think i can safely say that fernando mendoza — who won the heisman trophy and a national title at indiana — was somehow underrated

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In a more apples to apples comparison, I'm struck by how they kinda walked away from the Collins pay to play story, which IIRC was a Times/ProPublica joint effort.

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Bestowing personal freedom on each individual human is inefficient, it should all be given to me, soulless husk and genuinely unsettling solipsist, Sam Altman.

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Funny, I don’t remember drumbeat coverage in the Times about damning reports that Susan Collins took bribes (and that Trump then shut down the FBI anti-corruption unit investigating her). www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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He has identified the critical problem he and other hyperscalers have - open weight models can do a lot, will become more user-friendly. There is no moat, and no network effect. Without them, he can't make the monopoly/oligopoly profits needed to repay the debt that's been taken on. Tik tik tik...

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